I mean, if you look at it, Superman has killed before. Pushing Imperiex through the boomtube was his idea. Imperiex died. Doomsday died from a Superman punch. Was Mageddon sentient? He froze the brain of a red sun eater. When under the influence of Max Lord, he saw Brainiac kill Lois and Lana, and seemed more than prepared to kill Brainiac.
We're really going to have to define which is flat out killing and which is self defence/extenuating circumstances...
Originally posted by Martian_mind
I'd have to say killing something is most peoples definition of killing.
Yeahhhh, most of the time.
But if Batman kicks a guy, and he falls off a roof without him meaning to, or Superman accidentally heat-visions someone head off when he assumed they were damage resistant or something does kind of change things.
Originally posted by Martian_mind
The Batman example would be manslaughter.The Superman example would be murder." i thought they were bulletproof" isn't much of a defense.
Either way,they both killed.
In a court of law, the Batman example would also be murder: it's not self-defense if you went looking for the fight. And putting on a bat-suit and training your body and mind for two decades is kind of overkill as far as proving "premeditation" goes, which kind of throws a manslaughter plea out the window.